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The study examines influence factors in their association of perceived stress in child protection professionals, which could be addressed with an organizational prevention strategy. Self-evaluation data from 1,409 child protection were analyzed. It...

Social work aims to promote social change and work on the basis of social justice and human dignity. There are blind spots in the discourse of social-ecological transformation, both in practice and in theory. Based on the self-image of social work,...

This article explores the question of how the relationship between disciplinary discourses and professional social work practice in the migration society is represented in the everyday practice of social workers. Drawing on interviews and group...

Knowledge relations, a much cited model, are invoked in professionalisation research without a specific empirical programme. The article discusses the challenge of researching knowledge relations against the background of everyday-life...

Professionals in addiction and drug counseling should be able to assess the consumption behaviors of clients seeking advice. The interpretation of addiction as a disease currently represents a dominant concept within addiction support services....

Against the background of the project design of the VISION-RA practice research network the article presents the orientation frameworks of community mental health professionals and service users, reconstructed using the documentary method, and...

More than ever, social work is facing the challenge of developing new strategies for preventing radicalization and deradicalization. This also involves working with young people with an international family history in order to focus on their...

How do social workers in child and youth welfare deal with National Socialism and the professional history of social work in their private lives, in the course of their training and educational practice? This article presents findings from a...

Focus of this article is the reciprocal relation of knowledge and reflection referring to the Grounded Theory picture of Interactional Reflection of Professional Acting in School Social Work. It refers to relations between theory and practice of...

This paper is about a development trend that is located between the social and health sectors. I call this trend „health regionalization“. This trend appears as a new and formable field of practice for social work. At present, this trend is a...

Social work is entangled in many ways with digital artefacts, in which knowledge can be found. Through socio-technical conceptualizations of the human-technology-interaction and the performative character of digital artefacts, this knowledge is...

Based on the assumption that knowledge formation processes and the production of knowledge in the sense of doing knowledge in social work studies take place both at the university and in professional practice, this article examines the question of...